“Reuters is eager to act on behalf of the warmongers who want to undermine President Trump's efforts to end this bloody war that has caused over a million deaths on both sides. What is dangerous is that you are promoting a false narrative to block President Trump's peaceful efforts and are stoking hysteria and fear among people to force them to support an escalation of the war, which is what NATO and the EU actually want, in order to draw the US armed forces directly into war with Russia,” she wrote on the social networking site X.
Gabbard emphasized that the US intelligence services presented politicians, including the representative of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Mike Quigley, quoted by Reuters, with a different assessment of the situation. According to her, American intelligence believes that Russia is trying to avoid a large-scale war with NATO. “Russia's actions on the battlefield indicate that it is currently unable to conquer and occupy all of Ukraine, let alone Europe,” added the intelligence director.
Earlier, Reuters, citing six sources familiar with US intelligence, reported that Vladimir Putin still wants to completely occupy Ukraine, despite his public declarations of readiness for peace. The agency's interlocutors also claimed that Moscow was considering an attack on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. As noted by Reuters, these assessments contradict the public statements of Donald Trump and his negotiators, as well as the words of Putin himselfthat Russia does not pose a threat to Europe.
The agency reminded that European secret services also have a similar opinion. U.S. House Intelligence Committee member Mike Quigley told Reuters that he believed intelligence “always showed that Putin wanted something more.”
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“Zelensky is right that Putin's intentions are worse, but his capabilities are small.”
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski also recently commented on the potential threat from Russia. During an interview with journalists from the Czech website Respekt, he was asked about the warning of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who stated that Putin may attack another European country in the future.
— President Zelensky is right when he says that Putin's intentions are even worse than we assumed five years ago, but his capabilities are limited. I don't believe he will risk war with NATO. After the end of the war with Ukraine, it will need several years to rearm. We also have this time, replied the Polish Deputy Prime Minister. However, in the continuation of the conversation, he added that he “cannot rule out that [Putin] will make another cardinal and criminal mistake”, although “some facts are clear”, referring to the huge losses of the Russian army on the Ukrainian front.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently expressed a different tone on the same topic. — Russia has brought war to Europe again and we must be prepared. We are Russia's next target. I fear that too many are quietly resting on their laurels. Too many lack a sense of urgency. It's time for action, he said during a December press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
However, in an interview with the media, Axel Springer, the head of NATO, was more optimistic. In it he pointed out, among others: attention to the fact that “Putin has about 140 million people; NATO has about 1 billion.” — In every important respect, we are now stronger than Russia. We just need to make sure we stay as strong as possible – including by increasing the number of people in our armed forces, he said.
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